By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026The reasons for leaving your toothbrush in the shower may seem totally obvious to *you*, and your partner's inability to understand this reveals the assumptions you've never even considered. 10/ 1110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026For the past four decades, an increasing proportion of the population have spent an increasing proportion of their lives explaining things to machines that have *no* assumptions or shared context: computers. 11/ 1163
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026What we call "programming a computer" is really "breaking down a thing that seems obvious to you into increasingly simple instructions that will be followed *to the letter*." 12/ 1284
